.............Just a general rant on the mentality of some diesel drivers....

OK, OK......It was a Dodge driver, but don't tell me some of YOU guys don't do this.......

I drive a pretty nondescript truck. Aside from a cold-air intake system and slightly larger than stock tires (285s), my 2000psd is stock. Even the COLOR is non-threatening (white/gunmetal).....I mean, why on Earth, while driving north on I85 at 60mph in the right-hand lane, on a beautiful, mild Sunday, some idiot driving a Ram 3500 dooley thought I was in the mood to lock horns or race is beyond me. OK, great.....You've got an exhaust tip about as big around as an oil drum.....and it sounds like a pissed-off lion roaring right next to your head.....I GET it, OK. You want to be noticed. I'm impressed (not) that every time you push down the accelerator a cloud of black smoke belches from the exhaust, blinding everyone behind you. Terrific. I'm in awe.....

So after this maroon is finished and is down the road after letting everyone in a 1-mile radius know "hey...look at ME....I drive a DIESEL"!......I take stock of my physical 'vitals' to see if everything is normal. It is. My pecker didn't shrivel in fear. My butt-cheeks didn't clench up. My BP was normal. My heart-rate didn't increase. My lower lip and chin weren't trembling. Everything was still normal. Check.

So for all you aftermarket hp/tq ***** who just HAVE to show off (if that's what it's called), save it for the race track or the sled pull. If you want to impress ME, just chug along leisurely at the speed limit pulling a 35' 5th-wheeler or a big fishing boat. THAT'S what makes a diesel.

Thanks.

 

No, no Steve, we never do that. We thank the EPA every day for not letting our trucks smoke like a Dodge. Why didn't you shoot him?

 

 

Snapped this one at the boat ramp.



Not sure how widespread it is but around here the top sticker for the past few years says "Salt Life". Now the variant phase of the popular sticker life-cycle has been reached allowing this smoke fan to express himself even when the engine is off.

 

Probably would have if he had a pair of TruckNutz hanging off the rear......

 

that all star also has big wheel spacers and pizza cutter tires. fail.

 

I don't understand why people like having their wheels stick out of the wheel well like that.

 

Oh and Steve, did he have his mirrors flipped up like all of the Dodge fan bois seem to do?

 

Couldn't see past all the noise and smoke......

I mean....There I was, dude...Just enjoying the music and chugging along out of everyone's way at 60mph....cruise control 'on' and the tacho showing about 1700rpms..........Good music and just enjoying the road with my boring truck.......

Yeesh! Ain't like I had a license plate which read 'DodgeSux' or anything......

 

OK, here's the deal Steve. I will send you a big sticker that reads "DodgeSux" to put on your back window, then you will know exactly why you got SMOKED the next time.

 

I'm sure that was no more than one diesel guy sayin"what's up" to another diesel guy,I do it,I don't floor it and go by like some kind of idiot or nothin like that,but I'll hit it and let off quick enough to throw a little puff out,most of the guys around here do...

 

I know what you mean, I don't understand that either. They just must be envious of our true tow mirrors.

 

Well, it was a Dodge. That's what they do, first they smoke and then they catch fire.
I saw one burning on 1-10 in Phoenix in September, another one on I-80 in Sacramento last week and then my neighbor sent me these photos. This is his boss's truck. It burned up last week at the shopping mall in Chandler Az.

 

Or maybe dodge guys feel threatened by us Ford guys and felt he had to issue a pre-emptive strike...lol..

 

Us NC guys thats just the way we say hi to our fellow diesel enthusiast.